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New Mac-o-Lantern
An anonymous reader writes to tell us that it is that time of year again, time for a new pumpkin computer. This time it can see via webcam eyes (thanks logitech), breathe through its nose using a case fan, and talk out its mouth with a speaker system. The insides are made of a custom power supply and mac-mini Core Duo system. The lighting is made of neon wiring thanks to Startech.com mutant mods. Check out the last page with a video of the pumpkin in action."
Are they going to leave it out on the porch over Halloween night so the neighborhood kids can smash it?
I wonder if Microsoft would force you to buy a new copy of Vista if this was done to a PC running Vista? Somehow turning your case into a pumpkin seems like a "major upgrade" to me.
Valkyrie is about to die! Wizard needs food -- badly!
Or at the very least, it would be nice of them to use iCarve to design a hip looking face. That was very utilitarian for an Apple... er.. Pumpkin.
By Joy of Tech, don't forget about your Jobs-o-Lantern:
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Scary! Wooo!!
Woah... nice revisionism there... IBM didn't decide to stop making PPC chips for Apple... Apple pulled the plug on IBM because IBM wasn't going on a route that Apple wanted. They cooked up a lot of FUD about PPC chips not being powerfull enough or being too hot for them to justify their switch to Intel. Funny how previously with the macheads it was all sweetness and light with PPC being the bees knees and Intel chips were for pussies.
Donald 'Duck' Dunn: We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.
You're pretty much right on the ball. Intel chips WERE for pussies. IBM DID have powerful, efficient chips. When they no longer did (pretty much about the time the Powerbook G4 was becoming outdated and the G5 just couldn't be made efficient enough for a laptop), Apple switched to Intel. I hope they switch again if they find something better. To me, that's way better than being any one chipmaker's bitch. IBM's doing great making chips for all the major consoles. Apples doing great with the Intel chips. Ya gotta go where the best tech is for your business.
So they need a "1.83GHz Intel Core Duo" to light a pumpkin?
At my office, the pumpkin carving contest has become a tradition. Almost always they turn into mini-ITX computers running Linux (because we can't afford all those WinXP Professional licenses for trash boxes).
/dev/dsp at random times, randomly during working hours we had the pumpkin switch on a USB turntable and start playing funky disco music (George Clinton, Avg White Band, etc).
I keep the same mobo for it year after year, sometimes buying a new one (the nano-ITX from VIA works good).
Every year the cron job the pumpkin executes gets more complex.
This time in addition to catting out spooky wav files to
I think next year we might actually slip in a small LCD screen if there's budget money. The pumpkin went 802.11g last year,
Core 2 Duo is more efficient in a laptop than AMD's nearest offering. Ergo, Intel get the contract.
How many people can read hex if only you and dead people can read hex?
Oh, how I long for mod points. This is an excellent description of what happened.
I'll be the first to admit, I was a little wary when Apple made the switch to Intel, but I can now see that it wasn't a mistake. I was never one to bash Intel/AMD, (but I probably did it at least once or twice). Instead, I targeted the thing I think is the most broke on PC systems, and that's the operating system. IMHO, it has been broken for years, and I don't think Vista, while it holds many improvements, will be much better in the areas that I believe are broken.